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Intermittent vs Inaequihymeniiferous - What's the difference?

intermittent | inaequihymeniiferous |

As adjectives the difference between intermittent and inaequihymeniiferous

is that intermittent is stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant while inaequihymeniiferous is (mycology) of or relating to the arrangement of the hymenium of some mushroom species in the genera coprinus , the intermittent maturation and shedding of spores in radial bands beginning from the periphery of each gill, deliquescing from the bottom and advancing upwards.

As a noun intermittent

is (medicine|dated) an intermittent fever or disease.

intermittent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stopping and starting at intervals; coming after a particular time span; not steady or constant
  • The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
    Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
  • (specifically, geology, of a body of water) Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
  • The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.

    Derived terms

    * intermittently

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.
  • (Dunglison)
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    inaequihymeniiferous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (mycology) Of or relating to the arrangement of the hymenium of some mushroom species in the genera Coprinus , . The intermittent maturation and shedding of spores in radial bands beginning from the periphery of each gill, deliquescing from the bottom and advancing upwards.
  • * 1949 : Rolf Singer, The Agaricales (Mushrooms) in Modern Taxonomy , page 452] [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZH8yAAAAIAAJ&q=%22inaequihymeniiferous%22&dq=%22inaequihymeniiferous%22&ei=HedDSu2QFoyuMvDiyeEO&pgis=1 ? (Universidad Nacional de Tucuman; Instituto Miguel Lillo)
  • Characters:'' Hymenophore lamellate; the lamellae of the ''Coprinus''-type (with parallel or subparallel sides) or wedge shaped, of the aequihymeniiferous or the inaequihymeniiferous''' type; in the genera with aequihymeniiferous and wedge-shaped lamellae — epicutis of the pileus always characteristically cellular, the epicutis often consisting of somewhat compressed (not always quite globose) but distinctly subisodiametric bodies which are often somewhat colored, or arranged in or arranged in chains but not mealy in most species, rather rarely covered up by a velar layer which consists of elongate elements; otherwise, i. e. if the lamellae are of the ' inaequihymeniiferous type or with parallel or subparallel sides, they usually tend to deliquesce, and in extreme cases which are rather common, the whole pileus eventually […]

    Antonyms

    * aequihymeniiferous